[Ubuntu] [UbuntuGIS] #18: Oneiric PostGIS Fail?

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#18: Oneiric PostGIS Fail?
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 Reporter:  darkblueb  |      Owner:  ubuntu@…              
     Type:  defect     |     Status:  new                   
Component:  General    |   Severity:  serious               
 Keywords:  postgis    |  
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 in setting up a new oneiric system today, I added the UbuntuGIS unstable
 repo, added a public key, and installed package postgis.

 {{{
 Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu/
 oneiric/main postgis amd64 1.5.3-2~oneiric1 [342 kB]
 }}}

 but, I see no libgeos anywhere? how can this work?
 the following dpkg information does not make things look any better

 {{{

 dbb at planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ dpkg --info
 /var/cache/apt/archives/postgis_1.5.3-2~oneiric1_amd64.deb
  new debian package, version 2.0.
  size 341958 bytes: control archive= 895 bytes.
      799 bytes,    18 lines      control
      506 bytes,     7 lines      md5sums
  Package: postgis
  Version: 1.5.3-2~oneiric1
  Architecture: amd64
  Maintainer: Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>
  Installed-Size: 1336
  Suggests: postgresql-9.1-postgis
  Section: misc
  Priority: optional
  Homepage: http://postgis.refractions.net/
  Description: Geographic objects support for PostgreSQL -- common files
   PostGIS adds support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-
 relational
   database. In effect, PostGIS "spatially enables" the PostgreSQL server,
   allowing it to be used as a backend spatial database for geographic
 information
   systems (GIS), much like ESRI's SDE or Oracle's Spatial extension.
 PostGIS
   follows the OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL".
   .
   This package contains the PostGIS userland binaries, common files and
   documentation.
 dbb at planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ man dpkg
 dbb at planningserver:/home/shared/srcs_ps/gisvm_trunk_bin$ dpkg --contents
 /var/cache/apt/archives/postgis_1.5.3-2~oneiric1_amd64.deb
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/
 -rw-r--r-- root/root      5747 2011-11-18 07:22
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.Debian.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root    141159 2011-06-25 09:24
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/changelog.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root      1698 2011-11-18 07:20
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/copyright
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/
 -rw-r--r-- root/root      4190 2011-11-18 11:02
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/README.postgis.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root   1147611 2011-11-18 11:02
 ./usr/share/doc/postgis/postgis/postgis.html
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/
 drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2011-11-18 11:02 ./usr/share/man/man1/
 -rw-r--r-- root/root      1974 2011-11-18 11:02
 ./usr/share/man/man1/shp2pgsql.1.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root      1468 2011-11-18 11:02
 ./usr/share/man/man1/pgsql2shp.1.gz
 }}}

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